Do it well

ACE equips those Christians who can’t really stop themselves from wanting totalk about faith in Jesus to those outside the church. AND...

Sometimes you feel like you are an outsider in church?

Tension with the interests of the pastor or church council?

Keep looking around for someone to talk to about Jesus?

You don't read devotionals, you read to find fresh answers to share?

When you are in a faith-conversation you don't care whether you ever eat or sleep?

You may not call yourself an evangelist, butdoes that start to describe you? Are you trying some new things in your own way? Making someexcellent mistakes? Great!

ACE is for you.

How does it equip you?

Some questions will ask you to make connections between your study ( books and articles supplied at cost) and your own experience - forthese there can be no ‘right answers’ for everyone. You will choose a mentor to discuss these with.

Other questions or tasks are for group study. If you are studying with other people, thesequestions are meant to help you have an ‘agenda’ for your meetings together. You may like to invitea group of friends to meet with you regularly just to discuss this course – it will be good for all of you.

You will also find ‘tutor assignments’, though you do not have to complete all of them. IndividualAssignments should be sent to your tutor as you complete them, so that you can learn from theircomments before tackling the next one. The Course Coordinator will discuss with you who might be a tutor to you.

So, it can be done in a group or by correspondence. The whole course is designed to take 150‐200 hours at the level of the first year of a degree course. There are no prerequisites except conversational English. This course is not accredited with a university or VTAB.

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Summary of Course Content

Part 1 – The Mission‐Born Church.

Major shifts have occurred in the missioncontext, affecting the nature of church andtheir relationship to evangelism today.

Part 2 – The Influence of Experience.

Common methods of evangelism communicate different things about Jesus andthe relationship he offers to people.

Part 3 – Evangelists and the Body of Christ.

The Gospel and its evangelistic responsibilitiesbelong to the whole Body of Christ, to all itsindividual members and somehow includingthose recognised as evangelists.

Part 4 – Context and Strategy.

Evangelistic strategies can seem mechanical orthey can be framed such that Jesus Christbecomes approachable and understandablefor communities of real people. What wouldinfluence your design of such a strategy?

Part 5 – Preaching the Gospel .

The actual preaching of the Gospel meanssomething different in the context where youlive and serve. What will shape your contentand delivery?

Part 6 – Complete Conversion.

Christian conversion can take many forms andpathways. A good understanding of this willincrease the number and authenticity of conversions youare seeing.

Part 7 – Surprising Opportunities.

There are many surprising opportunities forevangelism. What personal disciplines orstrategies could prepare us to respondeffectively?

Part 8 – Starting to Follow Jesus.

Care of new Christians or ongoing seekers is awhole‐church responsibility. How can weinstruct Christians in the care of newbelievers?

Part 9 – Evaluating Evangelistic Strategies.

Some approaches are a turn off and somereally click. How do you assess a method foryour mission context ?